The Marinette Marine Corporation (Fincantieri Group) has been awarded the tender for the supply of a frigate to the US Navy, worth 800 million dollars. The contract provides for the option of another 9 for a total value of 5.5 billion dollars. The ships derive from the Fremm that the group has already supplied to the Italian Navy. ù
Fincantieri won the tender of the FFG (X) program for new missile launcher frigates alone, winning against other US shipyards. The contract provides for the delivery of the "class leader", to which the other nine optioned ships should follow from time to time in the coming years. The value of 5.5 billion dollars refers to the Fincantieri quota only, new tenders will be launched for supplies of armament and equipment, raising the total amount of the contract to 19 billion dollars. The result crowns the work started years ago by Fincantieri with the US Navy, for which the Italian group has already won the tender for 16 units of LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) (10 of which have already been delivered and six in progress). A successful project: 4 more units will in fact be delivered to Saudi Arabia.
